Dirty Money

By Steven Hager

Release Date : 2012-02-02

Genre : Política e actualidade

FIle Size : 5.23 MB

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Dirty Money Ever wondered about the real meaning of "The Wizard of Oz?" Who do you think really controls the banking industry? What are the connections between the intelligence agencies and organized crime around the world, and how do these connections affect the banking industry? Was the financial collapse of 2008 precipitated by the temporary refusal of the Mexican mob to launder money in major banks? The answer to these and other questions await you in this fascinating article of little-known banking history.

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Steven Hager In 1981, I was a reporter for the New York Daily News, when I investigated three haunted houses. The most compelling case came from Dr. Karlis Osis, a well-known researcher who frequently takes on assignments from the CIA and other top-secret organizations. Osis would later help me in an article about out-of-body research, of which he is considered the world authority. Although I was skeptical of the first two cases I investigated, I found the case of Jean and Patti to be difficult to disbelieve. Whether spirits are emanations of our own minds, or energies from another dimension is the million-dollar question. Someday, I hope we discover the answer.

Steven Hager Ever wondered about the real meaning of "The Wizard of Oz?" Who do you think really controls the banking industry? What are the connections between the intelligence agencies and organized crime around the world, and how do these connections affect the banking industry? Was the financial collapse of 2008 precipitated by the temporary refusal of the Mexican mob to launder money in major banks? The answer to these and other questions await you in this fascinating article of little-known banking history.

Steven Hager In popular culture many paradigms exist alongside each other, none of which are right or wrong. There is no one real meaning to life, only a set of possible paths leading in many directions. The area that should be investigated, however, is the development of propaganda and its influence on the shaping of our shared symbol system, and the possible influence these systems may have on what Carl Jung referred to as “the collective unconsciousness.” Is there a telepathic field shared by all humanity? Or thousands of mini-fields competing for the telepathic airwaves?A unique history of popular culture is explored, one that places Congo Square in New Orleans at its epicenter.

Steven Hager Rick Simpson was a Systems Engineer for a hospital in Nova Scotia when he discovered the benefits of eating concentrated cannabis oil. When Simpson began treating people who were suffering from a wide variety of illnesses, including cancer, the Canadian government arrested him. Jack Herer initially asked me to cover Simpson's story, and I ended up writing the first major magazine article on him, which opened up a firestorm inside the legalization movement, prompting a "note of caution" from Dr. Lester Grinspoon. Over the last few years, new evidence has emerged to support Simpson, but little in the way of solid, verifiable evidence that could be used in a scientific paper. This eBook is an ever-developing overview of the cannabis and cancer controversy as it exists today and will be updated periodically as new information emerges.

Steven Hager I came late to Bitcoin and have zero understanding of the technical complexities of cryptography, but I do realize Bitcoin is open source and completely transparent and completely non-predatory in design, a real departure from our banking industry. Any assets moved into Bitcoin virtually disappear from the public record at this point and do not become taxable events until they are brought back into the system. Bitcoin has numerous benefits to offer and represents a real threat to our current corrupt money system. The media has been relentlessly negative on bitcoins for a reason: they threaten the status quo. This text serves as a manifesto for the rise of a Bitcoin nation.

Steven Hager Noam Chomsky is both the whipping post of the radical conspiracy community and the voice of reason for the intellectual left. The conspiracy community refers to Chomsky as "a gatekeeper" and a lot of people treat him like a government shill instead of the government critic he is.But at the same time, Noam began his career on the Lower East Side, as a die-hard Marxist, and the truth of the matter is that wherever you find Marxism in America, you'll find spooks and skull & bones. Even today after decades of studies, I still can't figure the spooks from the true believers. Like John Reed. He was a child of the American oligarchy who played a huge roll in spreading Marxism. Was he a spook? While a graduate student, I wrote my first critique of Chomsky's revolutionary theories in linguistics.

Steven Hager I'd been recently hired as a reporter for the New York Daily News when I submitted this article. It ended up being featured at the top of the Sunday paper, which had the largest circulation of any edition. Although I thought I was on my way to a successful career as a newspaper reporter, I think my somewhat left-wing politics eventually left me isolated at the paper and I was soon fired.

Steven Hager Unfortunately, the image of the average stoner is not particularly attractive for people outside the culture, and for good reason since stoners are most often portrayed in the mass media as dumb slacker slobs. But this was not always the case. In the 1930’s, vipers were actually daper cats with refined taste in fashion and a deep understanding of blues and jazz. So what's required is a path back to this forgotten past, a time when cannabis use was cool and carried zero negative stigma. And the route is through the harmonization of all religions, which will end the manipulation of religion to manifest war for profit.

Steven Hager This book represents the Holy Grail of early hip hop journalism, written by the only professional journalist to travel to the South Bronx in the early 1980s to document the origins of the culture. For anyone interested in "first generation," this is the most authentic portrait of hip hop before commercialization took over. Sadly, the hard copy book was published before its time and never saw the distribution or sales it deserved. Copies of the original edition sell for as much as $500. This version contains new material not found in the original print edition.

Lee Hager & Steven Hager The Gospel of Thomas contains only 114 of Jesus’ sayings, but its powerful message has rocked conventional understanding of who Jesus was and what he taught. In Thomas, Jesus is not a savior, a messiah or a Christ. He does not die for anyone’s sins, and resurrection is not even mentioned. He is not considered the only-begotten Son of God, God incarnate or even a master over his followers. If he’s not portrayed in any of the roles that are customarily assigned to him, what part does he play?In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus is a human who has had his spiritual eyes opened through gnosis, a direct, personal experience of the Divine. His teachings are based on an understanding of the universe that quantum research is currently confirming. When we listen, his words can correct the misperceptions that fill our world with fear. We all have a choice to make. We can take a “quantum” approach to Jesus’ teachings or cling to an outdated interpretation of his words that cannot be reconciled with scientific research.We’ve discovered that the synergy of science and spirituality has the power to transform your life. We invite you to join us in exploring Jesus’ parables and sayings from a quantum perspective. But like Jesus, it is not our intention to give you more words to follow, but to offer a reason for you to want to experience the Divine for yourself.

Steven Hager President Lincoln was killed by a cabal inside his own administration because he was making secret plans to forgive the South and allow them to re-take their seats in Congress. This plan did not sit well with the radical Republicans who had taken control after secession because it would have upset their plot to loot the South and seek revenge for the rebellion, a project they were able to realize, but only after Lincoln was out-of-the-way. Includes numerous photos and illustrations from the period.

Steven Hager After burning most of my bridges in the States, I fled to Sweden in the winter of 1972 to avoid the draft. I had just enough money to buy an old used typewriter and was heavily influenced by Louis-Ferdinand Celine when I wrote this story. The American deserter community had recently been decimated by drug arrests and the remnants that remained seemed to be under surveillance from a variety of intelligence agencies.

Steven Hager In the mid-1960's, a teenage, hippie crash-pad scene developed in New York's East Village. Many of the arrivals were escaping repressive or abusive home environments. During this time, I was forced to run away twice before my father would consent for me to grow long hair. Today they call it "The Generation Gap," but it was really a Generation War. However, life in the East Village got increasingly bizarre as hard drug use increased, revealing a dark underbelly to the emerging hippie subculture.

Steven Hager Bugsy first appears in my short story "East Village" as a 16-year-old runaway living near Tompkins Square Park in 1967. Here we meet him again exactly one decade later and his circumstances have changed dramatically. If you don't set a course in life, you begin to drift, which has good and bad aspects. This story takes place in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, twin-cities dominated by the biggest university in Illinois. Many graduates hang around town for a few years after graduation trying to figure out a next move.

Lee Hager & Steven Hager Fear permeates our world. Fear is a thief that robs us of the peace and happiness we all desire. Science and religion have each had the opportunity to solve the problems that keep humanity in a state of fear, but they’ve both failed. Why? Instead of working together for the greater good, they’ve been locked in a power struggle that’s blinded both of them. Although Einstein recognized that science without religion is lame, and religion without science is blind, we’ve been left with a chaotic world where fearlessness seems impossible.To conquer fear, we must discover its root cause. The Beginning of Fearlessness: Quantum Prodigal Son is not a self-help book. Since we live in a world where we’re assaulted with new reasons to fear on a daily basis, we’ll never experience fearlessness by conquering one or two fears at a time. The Beginning of Fearlessness: Quantum Prodigal Son is a spiritual quest and a scientific adventure that finally brings together the information we need to make sense of the universe and our place in it.After years of piecing together a wide variety of spiritual and scientific information, we discovered that fear originates in our fundamental misunderstanding of the universe and our place in it. Eliminating these misunderstandings proved to be the beginning of fearlessness we all desire. Although this sounds impossible, we found others who had discovered the beginning of fearlessness too. If they could live a life of fearlessness, you can too.The book reveals an amazing message hidden in Jesus’ parable of the prodigal son. A line-by- line discussion of the parable makes use of the gnostic gospels, quantum physics, and the words of a wide variety of spiritual sages to unlock the parable’s secrets. Written in a straightforward manner, there’s no need for you to have previous knowledge or interest in either science or religion to understand and benefit from the material. Join in this spiritual quest and scientific adventure and discover the beginning of fearlessness for yourself.

Steven Hager "The outrageous energy of the participants and their subsequent notoriety will carry the reader through this uncritical, discursive pop history that begins with CBGB's and its development as the premier club for punk rock... The author then covers various groupings that were to make Manhattan's East Village and neo-expressionism buzzwords of the '80s: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kenny Scharf and Keith Haring receive extensive coverage, as well as performance artists like Ann Magnuson and "personalities" such as Patti Astor. The book culminates with the explosion of galleries in the East Village and its impact on the New York art marketplace."(Publisher Weekly, Copyright July 1986)

Steven Hager When I first arrived in New York City in 1978 with a Masters degree in Journalism, I was hoping to get a job with the New York Times. So the first thing I did upon arrival was spell out my plan for saving the city from bankruptcy, a plan I felt sure would get published and put me in good favor with the paper's Managing Editors. Unfortunately, the piece was rejected, albeit with the word: "Sorry" on the rejection slip.

Steven Hager Despite an avalanche of disinfo being dumped through the major media over the decades, the assassination of JFK has finally unraveled. A renegade CIA station working with a Sicilian secret society orchestrated the assassination, but their participation could never have been so massively covered-up unless they were working with elements higher up in the Pentagon. Whether you are new to the case, or a longtime researcher, you'll find these essays entertaining and enlightening as Hager probes details overlooked by most others. On any major conspiracy involving CIA ops, the company always puts its players into the driver's seat on both sides of the wedge.

"It took me 30 years to untangle these ops," says Hager, "and I don't pretend to have the final story, just something closer than the average JFK book, many of which run long and are stuffed with unessential detail."

This book replaces a previous distillation of the event titled Dirty Money, Secret Societies and Killing JFK.

Steven Hager "Extremely well-written" --Dave Marsh.... "The best and most reliable history" --Robert Palmer.... "Thrilling, intricate story" --Greil Marcus.... "Hager is an ace reporter" --Robert Chrisgau.... "Formidable job of reporting" --Ken Tucker.... "It's impressive" --David Hinckley... "Hits home with little known facts" --Nelson George.... "Best read on the subject" -- James Marshall ....just a sample of reviews on Hip Hop by Steven Hager when it first came out in 1984, which disappeared quickly and sold for $500 and got bootlegged all over the place. But now you can get that original story, updated, annotated, filled with new details and new never-seen photographs, and it includes most everything Hager ever wrote on the subject.

Steven Hager After attending New York/New Wave at P.S. 1, I discovered Futura's subway car "Break," which opened my eyes to the realization that a highly creative subculture was flourishing underground in New York. This was my first profile of anyone in that subculture, and I based it on my favorite writer at the time, Futura 2000, who I felt had the talent to crossover into the art world. This article is a look at the graffiti aspect of hip hop right before it exploded into the mainstream.

Lee Hager & Steven Hager You’ve probably asked yourself one of life’s most frustrating questions: “If God is love, why do we live in a world of fear and suffering?” Did you come up with a satisfying answer? Many have given up, deciding the dichotomy proves that God cannot exist. But this is a question that deserves a meaningful answer, one that must go far beyond, “just believe.” Sages who have experienced the Divine directly (gnosis) discovered the answer. As a result, they lived a life of spiritual fearlessness.Does that sound impossible? If so, than why bother with a spiritual quest? Why not stick with what the world has to offer? But you were not meant to seek continually, but to find. You were not meant to keep wondering, you were meant to understand. You were not meant to feel disconnected from the Divine, but to enjoy a direct, personal relationship. You were not meant to live in fear, but to rest in complete peace and security that can only result from experiencing truth first hand.Jesus was not the only sage who promised, “You will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” Although many religious teachings have been unable to stand up to scientific scrutiny, you’ll find that the words of the fearless sages we’ll be examining are strengthened by it. This liberating information was not meant for a special few, so what keeps most of us from recognizing the simple truths that can free us from fear? Let the words of sages and scientists hand you the keys you need to unlock the door to fearless spirituality.

Steven Hager Is the march of history a random string of events as the history books teach us, or do the hidden hands of secret societies manipulate political events like war and assassination? Drawing on over thirty years as an investigative reporter, the author reflects on many of the biggest conspiracies of our time, and shows how secret societies have played crucial roles in history.

Steven Hager On September 21, 1982, when my first Village Voice feature story was published, many in the media thought rap music was a fad that would soon disappear. Meanwhile, I was already predicting it would soon take over the world, which it did. Although Kool Herc and Coke La Rock pioneered the hip hop style, it was Bambaataa who transformed hip hop into a vibrant cultural movement based in art and creativity. It was his way of helping his tribe evolve out of gang activities and instead put their energies into peace, love and having fun. Bam's role in shaping and encouraging the early hip hop movement has been vastly under-appreciated.

Steven Hager I sold this script to Harry Belafonte and a movie got made using the characters names, but nothing else from my original story survived. Someday I hope a producer will actually produce the real story. It was intended as a slice-of-life drama and a vehicle for showing some authentic hip hop performances from the golden age of the first generation. I wanted many of the real people involved to play themselves, which is why people like Kool Herc and the Treacherous Three appear in the story, as well as Crazy Legs and the Rock Steady Crew.

Lee Hager & Steven Hager Most of us assume the words “religious” and “spiritual” mean the same thing. And why not, since the two words are often used interchangeably. But that wasn’t always the case. Does it matter whether you’re religious or spiritual? Can the way you approach the Divine affect your happiness? Discover the hidden meanings in these words and uncover a forgotten approach to Ultimate Reality.

Steven Hager Phase 2 was one of the creative forces that helped birth hip hop. He was a master writer and is often credited with inventing the bubble letters that evolved into Wild Style. He was an early break dancer who helped create the dance style know as top rocking. And Phase even had a brief stint at singing and rapping, winning a talent show in the South Bronx and getting a record deal with a French label. But during his entire career, Phase 2 granted very few interviews. This is one of them.

Steven Hager The Fun House was a dance club in New York that reached a peak in the mid-1980s. It was famous for under-age patrons, rampant drug use, occasional fights, and no-nonsense bouncers (all of whom looked like Gold's Gym poster boys). I spent a few weeks going there and wrote this report originally for the Village Voice. The club was raided the day the story appeared (and closed for one night), and word on the street was I was in big trouble. But the owners actually liked the story and thought it was good publicity. I concentrated on finding the best group of kids I could, with the best energy, and just followed them around for a few days. Today, the club is probably best known for having helped launch Madonna, who held several early performances there, and used it as a testing lab to tweak her early records.

Lee Hager & Steven Hager What is gnosis? Why should you care?

Since a collection of ancient manuscripts known as The Gnostic Gospels was discovered at Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945, gnosis has become a popular spiritual subject. But like many other fashionable topics, it has been manipulated, misused and misunderstood. Many mistakenly assume that gnosis is merely an unconventional interpretation of Jesus’ teachings, while others associate it with a myriad of New Age or esoteric practices.

But what if gnosis is actually a time-tested key that opens the door to infinite wisdom? What if it can answer life’s deepest questions such as: Who am I? Why am I here? What is the meaning of life? Is this life all there is? What is truth? Is there a God? Can I know God?

Let recent discoveries in quantum science and the wisdom of spiritual masters demonstrate that not only do you deserve the answers to these questions; gnosis can make them available to you.

Steven Hager "The idea is not to make war on religion, but to help it evolve, so we can put an end to war for religion, because right now, religion is the problem and not the solution. Religion and magic are the same thing, and a sense of enchantment has always been an essential part of ceremony and ritual." --Steven Hager

Steven Hager Two sides of a Generation War assembled their forces for battle, in the homes, the schools, and eventually the streets of America. Blake Moore is a young man on fire: in love with books and ideas, and he has the great electric current of the 1960’s running through him at full voltage. His mentor is Wesly Pinter, a rebellious semi-delinquent who functions as Huckleberry Finn to Blake’s Tom Sawyer. Pinter introduces Blake to a mysterious secret: the existence of steam tunnels that run underground beneath the entire town. The tunnels are a labyrinth—a great seething subconscious—affording a clandestine access to key places and buildings throughout the town— just as the forces of the underground break through the thin crust of a complacent America.

Steven Hager After I wrote my book Hip Hop, and film project that became known as Beat Street, I turned my attention to whatever happened to the biggest stars of the first generation of rock'n'roll in New York City? That trail led to Frankie Lymon and Arlene Smith. Frankie was long dead, so I built my story (which was hopefully going to be my third Village Voice cover in a row, following my profile on Afrika Bambaataa and portrait of the Fun House's Juice Crew) around Arlene Smith. Although my editor Tulani loved the story, the Voice strangely declined to publish it due to pressure from Robert Christgau, who vetoed the piece, even though I thought it carried an important message for the first generation of hip hop. The story sees the light of day for the first time on smashwords.

Steven Hager My first and only play was performed at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Urbana, Illinois, in December of 1974, and was accepted into the American College Theatre Festival Midwest Regional at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where it was performed on January 20th, 1975. Although held in a tiny theater that seated only 50, the performance was packed and afterwards, the audience sat in stunned silence before erupting in a standing ovation. An intense argument broke out after the moderator assigned to lead the discussion group claimed the play was not sufficiently developed, while some of the audience, including another playwright, strongly felt otherwise. Everyone conceded, however, I had a flair for dialogue and characterization. I was a huge fan of Anton Chekhov at the time, although you can also see influences from Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, as well as a touch of Samuel Beckett. Soon, I would become enthralled with The Living Theater, Jasper Grootveld, and the Manhattan Theater Project.

Steven Hager I met a girl while in graduate school and we ended up moving to New York City together. I found a job with Leo Shull's sleazy Showbusiness Newspaper and was making less than $150 a week, but that was okay because there were two of us and we had a wonderful sublease in Chelsea with a balcony overlooking the Empire State Building. That, however, was a three month deal, and once the term was up, so was my tragic love affair. Big cities have a way of doing that to young couples, I imagine. Lots of distractions and plenty of opportunities.

Steven Hager Learn how to make fun happen. It's sad so many are afraid of ceremonial magic. My idea is not to kill religion, but help it evolve. Everyone should feel free to make their own post-modern religion, something no harder than forming a band or a club. Ceremonies invest meaning into life and without a ceremonial tradition, many are cast adrift without moral guides. Bell, book and candle have been the foundations for ritual since time immemorial. Our society is awash with worship of senseless violence, and what's needed is a new direction, which is why I have but one rule: don't hurt anyone.

Steven Hager Steven Hager lived through the 1960s on the front lines of a social revolution, and traveled from Haight-Ashbury to Woodstock to Stockholm, Sweden, eventually landing back in Urbana, Illinois wondering how the revolution went so off-the-rails. Although Hager is mostly known for non-fiction conspiracy research, this collection is composed entirely of his early fiction and it was all written during the era and is presented now with new introductions. This includes his short story The Steam Tunnels as well as his one-act play Mrs Rose's Boarding House and his black comedic account of life in the East Village.